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Sun Jul-17-05 05:01 PM
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| Invasion of the Body Snatchers coming up on TCM!!! |
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Sun Jul-17-05 05:16 PM
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| 1. Directed by Don Siegel! |
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Famous later on for directing "Dirty Harry" and other Clint Eastwood films. :D
This is still a perfect allegory for America. Repukes are the pod people, the rest of us are locked up for refusing to comply!
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Sun Jul-17-05 05:26 PM
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| 2. who needs love? it comes and goes. |
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Sun Jul-17-05 05:29 PM
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| 3. Recognize Carolyn Jones? |
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The blond at the bar during the fingerprinting scene? That's Morticia Addams! :D
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Sun Jul-17-05 05:31 PM
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plus, Kevin McCarthy has a cameo in the remake with Donald Sutherland :D
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Sun Jul-17-05 06:02 PM
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| 5. Still one of the most frightening Science Fiction movies ever made |
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Edited on Sun Jul-17-05 06:03 PM by General Zod
The loss of humanity and individuality is a powerful theme. Plus the fact that Invasion strives for a kind of realism that is most unsettling. Santa Mira could be any small town in America. The pod people look just like you and me. The paranoia gives the movie it's power, along with that fact that it's open to interpretation: Were the pods symbolic of subversive communists here to take over our way of life? Or is it an attack on the McCarthyism prevalent during that era? Or is it saying that too much conformity is not a good thing?
Even if you don't buy into the political subtext, it's still an extremely scary movie, with a great screenplay and totally believable characters. Don Siegel's literate direction and the relentless pace of the film, make it an exciting, gripping, imaginative thriller.
"They're here already! Your next! Your next!" --Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles Bennell
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Sun Jul-17-05 06:06 PM
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| 6. not as scary as you demanding people kneel before you!!! |
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Sun Jul-17-05 06:10 PM
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That was a good one..... now bring me the son of Jor-El!!!!
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Sun Jul-17-05 06:21 PM
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| 8. Still searching for a man, Bernadette? |
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Edited on Sun Jul-17-05 06:22 PM by Liberal Veteran
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